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Gumbo (Gombô in Louisiana Creole, Gombo in Louisiana French) is a traditional Creole dish from New Orleans with French, Spanish, Native American, African, German, Italian, and Caribbean influences. It is a roux-based meat stew or soup, sometimes made with some combination of any of the following: seafood (usually shrimp, crabs, with oysters ...
The term Octoroon is used for people in New Orleans in the nineteenth century that were 1/8 Black and 7/8 white. These octoroons were known as Creoles of color. Relationships between octoroons and elite Creoles of New Orleans were prohibited, but young men commonly had strong attractions to octoroon women because of their beauty. Because of ...
The tignon law (also known as the chignon law [1]) was a 1786 law enacted by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró that forced black women to wear a tignon headscarf. The law was intended to halt plaçage unions and tie freed black women to those who were enslaved, but the women who followed the law have been described as ...
The patchwork of material was made to appear festive. Tignons worn by free women of color or enslaved women in Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Dominica, were made from Madras fabric, and even had hidden messages. [6] The tignon is experiencing a revival in Louisiana. It is found particularly in Creole-themed weddings.
Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village. iUniverse.com. ISBN 9781462003198. Malveaux, Vivian (2009). Living Creole and Speaking It Fluently. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781467846486. Kein, Sybil (2009). Creole: the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color. Louisiana State University Press.
Creole New Orleans, Race and Americanization, by Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, by Kimberly S. Hanger. Afristocracy: Free Women of Color and the Politics of Race, Class, and Culture, by Angela Johnson-Fisher, Verlag, 2008.
Roy F. Guste – author of ten Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks; fifth-generation proprietor of New Orleans' famed Antoine's Restaurant, established in 1840; Thomy Lafon (1810–1893) – businessman, philanthropist, and human rights activist; Austin Leslie (1934–2005) – internationally famous New Orleans chef whose work defined ...
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) [1] [2] [nb 2] was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862 ), also practiced rootwork , conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo and ...